Notes on Books
The Staff Engineer's Path¶
I started reading The Staff Engineer's Path. It's awesome.
Introduction¶
A few things that really called to me:
Engineers considering this path may have never worked with a staff engineer before, or might have seen such a narrow set of personalities in the role that it seems like unattainable wizardry.
Basically, the lesson is:
- Embrace uncertainty.
Three pillars of staff engineering are offered:
- Big-picture thinking
- think beyond the current time
- see the forest but sometimes....you'll need to closely inpsect a tree
- Execution
- projects get messier and more ambiguous, they'll involve more people and be harder
- Leveling up (the folks you work with)
- intentional influence: teaching, mentoring
- accidental influence: being a role model/example
The rest of the book is broken up into parts based on those three pillars.
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